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Behind veil of riches are tales of terror and fratricide

From Left Baktash Akasha, Gulam Hussein, Ibrahim Akasha and Vijaygiri Goswami. (Photo: Reuters)

For decades, the name Akasha has been synonymous with notoriety and impunity.

This is especially so in Mombasa, where the late patriarch Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla and some of his sons held sway until he was killed in a hail of bullets in the Netherlands in 2000.

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